​No more will you be cursed with an endless stream of Nidoran. You won't be for a little while, at least. Pokémon GO just announced that for a limited time, all eggs will be hatching into Gen 3 creatures, which should help you snag the now 100 new Pokémon that have been introduced into the game. Just yesterday, developer Niantic Labs released 23 more creatures, marking the fourth such wave of Gen 3 releases. You can see all the new Pokémon that have been added here.

The egg hatching thing is good news: disappointing egg hatches are as old as the game itself, even if Niantic managed to get Pidgeys and Rattatas out of there a long time ago. Eggs function a tiny bit like the much-derided loot boxes that have taken over much of the video game industry, even if they're a little more integrated into gameplay than in most other systems. But they're still randomized reward boxes that might contain less-desirable or more-desirable prizes, and they're still connected to a micro-transaction system because incubators are only available for pay. As far as loot box systems go, however, they're not all that onerous.

Shifting the rewards around still speaks to a larger concern that I've seen mounting in the game: it's just getting harder and harder to catch 'em all, particularly with such a large number of creatures available at any given moment. Not only do the normal games never have every Pokémon available at once, they're easily broken up into different ecological zones where you can go hunting for certain kinds of creatures. Pokémon GO is much more difficult to manage due to the nature of its real-world proposition, and it's getting challenging to seek out any particular Pokémon that you might be trying to find. It has the ecological differences to some degree, but biomes are much more limited and certain people might not have access to more than one. Weather has also mitigated that problem a bit, because you could make the decision to go out in the rain to hunt after a particular Water-type Pokémon, and so on. It can still be challenging to go after particular creatures, however, and it's only going to get worse as more creatures get added.

Making sure that eggs hatch into new creatures is a good way to make it easier for people to fill out their Pokédexes, but I can't help but think the game is going to need more long-term fixes to avoid content bloat.